By Hardcastle H.B. No. 1331
76R5596 CMR-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to disqualification for the receipt of unemployment
1-3 compensation benefits based on the receipt of certain payments.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 207.049, Labor Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 Sec. 207.049. RECEIPT OF REMUNERATION. An individual is
1-8 disqualified for benefits for a benefit period for which the
1-9 individual is receiving or has received remuneration in the form
1-10 of:
1-11 (1) wages in lieu of notice; [or]
1-12 (2) severance pay; or
1-13 (3) compensation under a state worker's compensation
1-14 law or a similar law of the United States for:
1-15 (A) temporary partial disability;
1-16 (B) temporary total disability; or
1-17 (C) total and permanent disability.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-19 applies only to a claim for unemployment compensation benefits that
1-20 is filed with the Texas Workforce Commission on or after that date.
1-21 A claim filed before that date is governed by the law in effect on
1-22 the date that the claim was filed, and the former law is continued
1-23 in effect for that purpose.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.